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Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
Marcia Bjornerud
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| #94105 in Books | Marcia Bjornerud | 2006-10-31 | 2006-10-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.63 x5.25l,.59 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | Reading the Rocks The Autobiography of the Earth||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Not many popular science books are this stylishly crafted|By Frank D|Probably the most poetically written (and worldly erudite) books on geology you are ever likely to read - almost to a fault. Strangely and almost paradoxically, whilst admiring the lyricism of the prose and non-geological erudition, it is easy to overlook the hard geological facts, and for amateurs like me,
To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. Fulbright Scholar Marcia Bjornerud takes the reader along on an eye-opening tour of Deep Time, explaining in elegant prose what we see ...
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